I'm new to home networking but have managed to network (CAT5 cable) my old
PC with XPSP2 HE & 40Gb HDD via Netgear ADSL Firewall Router DG834 to my new
PC also with XP SP2 HE but with 400Gb HDD. I want to take a complete image
or backup of the 40Gb drive on the new PC before I reformat it & reinstall
XP as its now so sluggish. What is the best way to do this? The 40Gb drive
is partitioned into 3 parts each approx 13Gb in size. The new 400Gb PC is
not partitioned & I'm wondering if I should partition it for best
performance or leave it as one enormous drive.
Do I need bespoke backup software to aid in this or will XP SP2 suffice??

thanks

Tony P

if you want to backup whole computer image, you may want to use ghost. If you just want to backup the data, you can use xcopy or robocopy.

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
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"Tony P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:OBe%(E-Mail Removed)...
I'm new to home networking but have managed to network (CAT5 cable) my old
PC with XPSP2 HE & 40Gb HDD via Netgear ADSL Firewall Router DG834 to my new
PC also with XP SP2 HE but with 400Gb HDD. I want to take a complete image
or backup of the 40Gb drive on the new PC before I reformat it & reinstall
XP as its now so sluggish. What is the best way to do this? The 40Gb drive
is partitioned into 3 parts each approx 13Gb in size. The new 400Gb PC is
not partitioned & I'm wondering if I should partition it for best
performance or leave it as one enormous drive.
Do I need bespoke backup software to aid in this or will XP SP2 suffice??

thanks

Tony P